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BREAKING NEWS: Cameron Mackintosh Bringing Re-Imagined LES MISERABLES to Broadway in Spring 2014!

Cameron  Mackintosh‘s production of Les  Miserables is written by Alain  Boublil and Claude-Michel  Schönberg and is based on the novel by Victor  Hugo. It has music by Claude-Michel  Schönberg, lyrics by Herbert  Kretzmer and original French text by Alain  Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel,  original adaption by Trevor Nunn and John  Caird and additional material by James  Fenton. The original Les  Miserables orchestrations are by John  Cameron with new orchestrations by Christopher  Jahnke and additional orchestrations by Stephen Metcalfe and Stephen  Brooker.

The new production is directed by Laurence  Connor and James  Powell, designed by Matt Kinley inspired by  the paintings of Victor  Hugo with costumes by Andreane  Neofitou and additional costumes by Christine  Rowlands, lighting by Paule  Constable, sound by Mick Potter and  projections by Fifty-Nine Productions.

Now in its 28th year in London, Les  Miserables originally premiered at the Barbican  Theatre in a co-production with the Royal  Shakespeare Company in 1985. It transferred to the Palace Theatre in  December of that year and then moved to its current home at the Queen’s  Theatre in April 2004 where it is still playing to standing room only. In  October 2006 Les  Miserables took over the title of World’s Longest Running Musical followed  by two other Cameron  Mackintosh productions, Andrew  Lloyd Webber‘s The Phantom of the Opera and Cats.

The Broadway production of Les  Miserables originally opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 12, 1987 and  transferred to the Imperial Theatre on October 17, 1990 running for 6,680  performances. There have been four national touring companies of Les  Miserables that have played more than 200 cities. Broadway audiences  welcomed Les  Miserables back to New York on November 9, 2006 where the show played the  Broadhurst Theatre until its final performance on January 6, 2008. To date, Les  Miserables is the 4th longest-running Broadway production of all time.

Seen by nearly 65 million people worldwide in 42 countries and in 22  languages, Les  Miserables is undisputedly one of the world’s most popular musicals ever  written, with new productions continually opening around the globe, with seven  more currently scheduled. There have been 47 cast recordings of Les  Miserables, including the multi-platinum London cast recording, the Grammy  Award-winning Broadway cast and complete symphonic albums and live recording of  the New 25th Anniversary Production and now the motion picture soundtrack which  has sold close to 1.5 million copies and has topped the Billboard and iTunes  charts. The DVD’s of the 10th Anniversary at the Royal Albert  Hall and the 25th Anniversary at The O2 have sold millions of copies  worldwide.

There are over 2,500 productions of the Les  Miserables School’s Edition scheduled or being performed by over 125,000  school children in the UK, US and Australia, making it the most successful  musical ever produced in schools.

In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the legendary musical Les  Miserables made theatrical history with an international first – three  different productions in London at the same time. The Original Production at the Queen’s  Theatre, the acclaimed New 25th Anniversary Production at the Barbican  (where the show originally premiered) and a celebratory concert at The O2 Arena.  The O2 Concert was presented in over 500 cinemas throughout the United States on  November 17, 2010 and is now available on Blu-ray DVD through Universal  Studios Home Entertainment.

The Universal film version of Les  Miserables co-produced by Cameron  Mackintosh and Working Title Films,  and directed by Tom  Hooper, has grossed $150 million domestically and nearly $400 million  worldwide since its Christmas Day release. The film received the Golden Globe  Award as Best Picture (Musical/Comedy) and received eight Academy Award  nominations, including Best Picture. The DVD/Blu-ray of the hit movie and the  extended deluxe 2-disc edition of the soundtrack featuring an additional 22  tracks will be released on March 22.

The sumptuous definitive new book, Les  Miserables – From Stage to Screen, will be available for sale beginning  April 16. It tells the story so far of the World’s Longest Running Musical in  words, pictures and rare facsimile memorabilia and is written by Benedict  Nightingale and Martyn Palmer, with the foreword by Cameron  Mackintosh.

For more information on the production please visit www.LesMis.comLesMizNew200

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